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Publication Date: 2014
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Remembering in a Context of Forgetting: Hauntings and the Old Durham Road Black Pioneer Settlement
Norquay, Naomi
Canadian Social Studies, v47 n2 p127-139 2014
This paper explores the data produced from an oral history project about a Black pioneer settlement in Grey County, Ontario. Twelve area residents were interviewed and the data produced points to various community practices of both remembering and forgetting. I employ Avery Gordon's (2008) theorization of ghosts and hauntings to make sense of the gaps, silences, and contradictions that populated the interviews. The paper ends with a consideration of Roger Simon's (2000, 2005) plea for a practice of remembrance that is both ethical and pedagogical.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Area Studies, History, Blacks, Land Settlement, Personal Narratives, Memory, Racial Bias, Rural Areas, Ethics, Oral History, Interviews
University of Alberta. 347 Education South, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G5, Canada. Web site: http://www2.education.ualberta.ca/css/
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Language: English
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